FLAG
The flag of Wales consists
of a red dragon passant on a green and white field. It was officially recognised as the Welsh national flag in 1959.
SHIELD
The Wale’s shield was approved in
May 2008. It consists a four lions of gold, surrounded of a green band with the
sentence (I am true to my country). The wale’s shield, source from Llywelyn the last, in the thirteen century.
ANTHEM
The national anthem of Wales, means "Old Land of My Father”. The words
were written by Evan James and
the tune composed by his son, James James.
HISTORY
The history of Wales begins with the
arrival of human beings in the region thousands of years
ago. Neanderthals lived in what is now Wales, or Cymru in Welsh, at least 230,000 years ago.[Homo sapiens had arrived by about 31,000 BC.
However, continuous habitation by modern humans dates from the period after the
end of the last ice age around 9000 BC, and Wales has many
remains from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age. During the Iron Age the region, like all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, was dominated by the Celtic Britons and the British
language. The Romans, who began their conquest of
Britain in AD 43,
first campaigned in what is now northeast Wales in 48 against the Deceangli, and gained total control of the region with their defeat of the Ordovices in 79. The Romans departed from
Britain in the 5th
century, opening the door for the Anglo-Saxon
invasion.
Thereafter British language and culture began to splinter, and several distinct
groups formed. The Welsh people were the largest of these groups,
and are generally discussed independently of the other surviving Brythonic-speaking peoples after the 20th
century.
CULTURE
The wales culture, take in his own
lenguaje,,manners and party and musics day’s.
LITERATURE: The wale’s literatura has been writted in
wales, english and latin, the first’s writtens spoke about myths .One of the
famous writers is Giraldus Cambrensis and Ken Follet.
ARCHITECTURE: Wales has very good prehistorics buildings, like Bryn
Celli Ddu and the Pentre Ifan (it was a cementery). Too Wales has
good buildings, like Bodelwyddan and Cardiff.
CELEBRITIES: Some Wale’s celebrities are: Stereophonics(Band), Tom Jones(Singer), Anthony
Hopkins(actor), Gareth Bale(footballer)...
ECONOMY
Wales is characterized by farms and pastoral highlands. There had been some
industrial development around the coal fields centered on Wrexham, but the
fields have largely been closed. The coastal towns of the Lleyn Peninsula
(Gwynedd) are tourist and vacation centers for N England's industrial cities.
The industrial wealth of Wales is concentrated in the southern counties
bordering on the Bristol Channel. This area has large steelworks (Port Talbot), oil refineries (Milford Haven), tinplate and copper foundries, and the once-rich S Wales coal fields.
The southeast also has the greatest concentration of investment in Britain,
predominantly in electronics. Other important industrial cities and ports are Newport, Cardiff, Swansea, and Tenby. The labor force has tended to drift into the southern
industrial areas, leaving the north sparsely populated. With the decline of the
coal industry, the Welsh economy has become increasingly reliant on consumer
electronics, automotive parts, chemicals, and tourism, information technology,
and other service-related industries.
INDUSTRY
Wales has many business working about the slate. A
famous company is Wale’s industry.
GEOGRAPHY
Looking at the physical map of Wales, we can see the Irish sea to the west. To the north, we have the Liverpool Bay, and to the south, the Bristol Channel. In wales we highlight the Cambrian mountains, crossing the entire country.
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